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Springfield,  Illinois 


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PLACES  IN  SPRINGFIELD.  ILLINOIS.  MARKED  WITH  BRONZE  TABLETS 


Site  of  Joshua  Fbt  Speed's  Gexekal  Stoke. 
107  South  Fifth  Street. 
Above    this   store   Lincoln   shared    a   sleeping 
room   with  Speed,  on  first  coming  to  Springfield, 
in  1837. 

Site  op  Sbcoxd  PBESBTTnu.\x  CnrKCH. 

217  South  Fourth  Street. 
Here  Lincoln  attended  the  first  session  of  the 
Illinois  House  of  Representatives    (1839-1S40)    fol- 
lowing the  removal  of  the  Capitol  from  Vandalia. 

Site  of  the  Globe  Taveks. 
315  East  Adams  Street. 
Here  Lincoln  and  his  wife  lived  from  the  time 
of  their  marriage  until  May  2.  1844.    Here  Robert 
Lincoln  was  bom. 

Smith.  C.  M.  BtntDi^ic. 
328  East  Adams  Street. 
In  a  room  on  the  third  floor  of  this  buildin? 
Lincoln    In    January,    1861,    wrote    his    inaugural 
address. 

Wabash  Freight  House. 
Tenth  and  ilonroe  Streets. 
This  in  1861  was  the  passenger  station   of  the 
Great  Western    Railroad.      Here,  on  the  morning 
of  February   11.  1861.  Lincoln  delivered  his   fare- 
well  address   from   the  rear  platform   of  his  car. 


Site  op  Ilusois  State  Joc^v.ai.. 
116-118   North   Sixth   Street. 
Here  Lincoln  first  received  the  news  (May  18, 
1860)   of  his  nomination  for  President  of  United 
States. 

Pl-blic  Receivi:«g  Vacxt  Oak  Ridge  Cemetebt. 

The  body  of  Abraham  Lincoln  lay  in  this  vault 
from  the  day  of  his  funeral.  May  4,  1865.  until 
December  21,  1865. 

Site  of  the  Fiest  Presbvteeia:«  Church. 

302  East  Washington  Street. 
Lincoln    rented    a    pew    here,    and    with    his 
family  attended  services,  1842-1861. 

Chicago  &  Altos  R.ulroad  Passe.vgeb  Station. 
Third  and  Jefferson  Streets. 
Abraham     Lincoln's     body     was     brought     to 
Springfield  by  special  funeral  train,  reaching  this 
station  May  3,  1865. 

The  Li.xcolx   HoMESTr_\D. 
Eighth  and  Jackson  Streets. 
Open  to  the  public,  10  to  12  a.  m.,  2  to  5  p.  m. 
Closed   Sundays. 

Camp  V.\te-s  1861. 
Comer  Douglas  Avenue  and  Governor  Street. 
Here    General    U.    S.    Grant    began    his    Civil 
War  career. 


FOREWORD 


SPRINGFIELD,  the  capital  of  Illinois 
since  so  created  by  act  of  legislature 
in  1837,  was  founded  in  1819.  and  lies  in 
the  heart  of  the  Great  Middlewest,  in  the 
center  of  the  vast  agricultural  and  coal  pro- 
ducing regions.  It  is  a  city  of  60.000  people 
within  the  city  limits.  75.000  including  con- 
tiguous settlements,  and  is  constantly  grow- 
ing   and    expanding. 

As  a  place  to  be  called  "The  City  in 
which  I  Live'"  it  is  unusually  attractive,  with 
its  thousand  acres  of  park  lands,  including 
two  of  the  most  beautiful  parks  in  the 
United  States,  one  of  them  named  for  Lin- 
coln and  one  for  Washington,  and  five  hun- 
dred acres  recently  acquired  for  future  park 
cultivation;  its  beautifully  developed  resi- 
dence sections,  where  are  to  be  found  some 
of  the  loveliest  homes  in  America;  its  $5.- 
000.000  system  of  public  and  parochial 
schools,  private  seminaries  and  excellent 
business  colleges;  the  splendid  educational 
advantages  of  its  fine  city  and  state  librar- 
ies; its  fifty-eight  churches  valued  at  $1,- 
789.000;  its  finely  operating  form  of  com- 
mission  government;   its  position  as  seat   of 


the  Sangamon  county  government;  as  the 
seat  of  the  state  government  with  the  beau- 
tiful state  buildings  including  the  magnifi- 
cent new  Illinois  Centennial  Building  among 
its  show  places;  its  importance  as  the  loca- 
tion of  the  Federal  Court  and  United  States 
District  Court  officials;  its  manufacturing 
and  industrial  facilities  of  a  hundred  or  more 
factories  of  varied  nature  furnishing  occupa- 
tion to  10.000  people,  and  the  great  many 
other  advantages  which  it  offers  to  progress- 
ive and  public  spirited  men  and  women 
citizens. 

Four  outstanding  advantages  which  com- 
mand attention  point  to  the  desirability  of 
Springfield  as  a  home  and  business  center: 
Springfield  has  the  lowest  priced  coal  in  the 
United  States,  due  to  the  fact  that  it  lies  in 
the  heart  of  Illinois'  great  coal  fields,  elim- 
inating transportation  costs.  It  has  the 
lowest  power  and  electric  rates  in  the  United 
States,  outside  the  hydro-electric  field,  with 
the  amazingly  low  rate  of  one  and  one-half 
cents  per  K.W.H.  or  less  according  to  con- 
sumption. It  has  also  the  lowest  water  rate 
in   Illinois,   proven  by  all  available  statistics 


and  by  atcual  working  costs.  And  it  has 
unexcelled  transportation  facilities  with 
seven  of  the  great  trunk  railroads  which  tra- 
verse this  immense  agricultural  area  leading 
into  the  city,  and  with  surface  lines  of  the 
most  progressive  type  within  the  city  itself. 

Financially  Springfield  has  one  of  the 
soundest  and  most  progressive  banking  sys- 
tems in  the  country,  headed  by  men  of 
integrity  and  true  citizenship,  nine  great  in- 
stitutions w^ith  massed  resources  of  more 
than  $35,000,000,  with  industrial  banks  in 
workingmen's  districts  and  loan  associations 
Virith  assets  of  $4,500,000  for  the  benefit  of 
its    people. 

The  splendid  civic  spirit  of  the  city  is 
manifested  in  its  progressive  Chamber  of 
Commerce  with  2,000  working  members, 
its  six  men's  clubs,  its  advanced  and  active 
clubs  for  women,  its  splendidly  efficient  Y. 
M.  C.  A.  and  Y.  W.  C.  A.,  and  its  one  hun- 
dred and  thirty-eight  fraternal  societies.  Its 
fine  hotels  offer  the  visitors  homes,  and  its 
clubs  provide  them  places  of  recreation,  its 
excellent  theatres  entertainment.  It  will 
soon  be  the  home  also  of  one  of  the  most 
magnificent  Masonic  cathedrals  in  America, 
plans  for  which  are  now  being  drawn. 


Not  th.e  least  outstanding  in  point  of 
Springfield's  desirability  as  a  residence  and 
business  location  is  the  City  Zoning  and 
Planning  Commission  with  the  great  City 
Plan  which  has  been  proposed  and  adopted 
and  which  will  set  Springfield  in  the  fore- 
ground of  America's  proud  list  of  cities  of 
beauty  and   distinction. 

And  then  there  is  Springfield's  own  Hall 
of  Fame  which  contains  illustrious  names  of 
men  who  have  done  things  and  v^rhom  the 
world  recognizes.  Not  alone  that  of  the 
Immortal  Lincoln,  but  America's  great  poet, 
Nicholas  Vachel  Lindsay;  its  great  novelist, 
Edgar  Lee  Masters,  accorded  one  of  ten 
outstanding  world  wfriters;  its  great  states- 
man and  writer.  Brand  Whitlock.  former 
Minister  to  Belgium;  that  minister  and  es- 
sayist. Dr.  Frank  Crane,  and  that  Lincoln 
historian  and  writer  of  charm.  Henry  B. 
Rankin,  ^re  names  which  have  added  proud 
luster  to  Springfield. 

As  a  World  Shrine,  because  of  the  World 
Beloved  Lincoln,  as  the  capital  of  the  great 
commonwealth  of  Illinois,  and  as  a  metrop- 
olis of  the  great  Middlewest,  Springfield 
welcomes  the  traveler  and  visitor,  whence 
he  may   come,   wherever   he   may  go. 


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THE  SCHOOLS  OF  SPRINGFIELD 


IN  the  year  1914  the  Springfield  Board  of 
Education  together  with  a  group  of  in- 
terested citizens  invited  the  Russell  Sage 
Foundation  to  make  a  survey  of  the  Spring- 
field schools  and  offer  recommendations 
for  a  future  program. 

Since  then  it  has  been  the  policy  of  each 
successive  Board  of  Education  to  work 
toward  the  objectives  set  forth  in  this  Sur- 
vey with  the  gratifying  result  that  the 
Springfield  schools  now  rank  with  the  most 
progressive  schools  in  the  country. 

Of  the  twenty  buildings  used  for  school 
purposes  all  are  in  excellent  repair,  while 
fifteen  are  comparatively  new  and  built  ac- 
cording to  the  latest  standard  school  re- 
quirements. All  of  the  buildings  except  one 
are  provided  with  auditoriums,  shops,  and 
special    rooms. 

The  senior  High  School  completed  in  the 
year  1917  represented  at  that  time  an  in- 
vestment of  $450,000.  A  recent  valuation 
placed  the  estimate  at  $1,000,000  for  build- 
ing and  equipment.      The  total  valuation  of 


school  property  amounts  to  approximately 
$5,000,000.  The  annual  cost  of  school  ad- 
ministration is  around  $1,000,000,  •while 
the  assessed  valuation  of  the  school  district 
is  a  little  over   $30,000,000. 

Nearly  12,000  children  are  enrolled  in 
the  schools  for  the  year  1922-2  3.  These 
1  2,000  children  are  educated  in  a  system  of 
schools  comprising  kindergartens  in  every 
district,  eighteen  elementary  schools,  one 
central  junior  high  school,  and  one  senior 
high  school.  Tlie  educational  staff  consists 
of  350  members,  not  including  nurses  and 
special  teachers  in  special  departments  such 
as  visiting  teacher,  and  teachers  for  un- 
graded  rooms,    and   supervisors. 

Supervised  study  is  maintained  in  the 
senior  high  and  junior  high  institutions, 
while  upper  grade  work  in  the  elementary 
schools  has  been  departmentalized.  For  the 
past  ten  years  the  schools  have  been  grad- 
ually modernized  so  that  the  system  now 
holds  a  conspicuous  place  among  the 
schools    of    the    middle    west. 


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